Ubuntu 11.10 Development Update 15

This is a guest post from Daniel Holbach, who will be posting updates about Ubuntu Development. (Original Post).

Ubuntu Development Update

One week left! Are you excited already? The release candidate is going to get out soon and we will have days full of testing the installation on all architectures, in all kinds of installations scenarios. If you want to help out with the testing, it will be much appreciated.

So what’s still happening? It’s interesting to note that still quite a number of fixes is going in. Also has the planning for the 12.04 (“Precise Pangolin“) cycle been started. Matthias Klose sent out an email about the preparation of the P-cycle archive: the wiki page lists a number of significant changes for ‘precise’, like updates to gcc, binutils, swig and other core components and dropping python2.6.

It was great to see that he got feedback from a number of lead developers working on this.

Also lots of people are already thinking about the discussions at UDS, so a few discussion topics already found their way to the summit page.

Events

Ubuntu Release PartiesWe’re still looking for people who can organise Ubuntu release parties! The Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10 release will get out on 13th October. This is a great reason to celebrate, so why don’t have a release party? Here’s how to organise it and here’s how to register it. There’s 29 events listed right now, these cities are participating:

It’s just amazing to see how distributed the parties are and how excited folks get together to have a great time together and celebrate this great release.

Ubuntu Open Week
Not finalised yet, but it’s clear that we’re going to have Ubuntu Open Week after release, where we’ll have a very broad spectrum of talks and workshops which showcase all the areas in Ubuntu where you could get involved. Watch out for the official announcement. Leave a comment for a session that you’d like to see! Watch out for the development-related sessions. The editor of this post is looking into getting one set up.

Things that still need to get done

It’s late in the release cycle, but if you want to help fixing things in the release and the fix is sufficiently important, here’s how to get involved in packaging and bug fixing, there’s still a lot of bugs that need to get fixed: